Independence Day LOL
Cidu Bill on Jul 4th 2010
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Marshal Jul 4th 2010 at 12:36 am 1
The Evil Inc. strip is part of a story arc that starts here:
http://www.evil-comic.com/archive/20100628.html
It is part of another arc started on June 7, and has Miss Match,
Lightning Lady and Desdemona teaming with Psy-Chick on a
capper to steal a weapon from Don ‘Luke “The Trekkie” Piccardo’.
And yes the puns do fly freely.
mitch4 Jul 4th 2010 at 07:44 am 2
SF and visionary author Gene Wolfe had a book of essays and occasional pieces that he called “Castle of the Otter”. The title was retained from a fan’s mishearing or misunderstanding of Wolfe’s announced but at that time still forthcoming “Citadel of the Autarch”.
George Jul 4th 2010 at 08:53 am 3
Re: Scarlet Letter
I don’t get it.
It’s been along time since High School Lit, but I can’t see what makes this funny, let alone a LOL.
Sili Jul 4th 2010 at 09:49 am 4
I hadn’t caught the pun in Partially Clips …
Rainey Jul 4th 2010 at 10:01 am 5
George, the punchline behind the scarlet letter strip is that very few observers would know what the letters actually stand for. Besides that, with only 26 letters in the alphabet, insulting labels outnumber letters. You’ll run out of letters very quickly.
MellowCake Jul 4th 2010 at 12:48 pm 6
I know the “Pardon My Planet” comic is just a play on a phrase but… How do you have an unarmed missile base? And the missile base drawn is hardly unarmed. So, I’m probably trying to hard, but is the joke just the phrase??
George Jul 4th 2010 at 01:18 pm 7
Unarmed could mean one of several things:
1) The missiles have no warheads
2) The missiles are not prepared for launch
3) Any installed warheads are not prepared for detonation
None of these conditions are easily shown pictorially. Maybe the cartoonist meant to show partial canards (the fins near the nose) like partial arms on the Venus statue. Canards aren’t always seen on missiles, but they all have them here, so he must have intended to do something with them. Anyway, how do you draw a partial canard? It’s kind of like digging half a hole.
Morris Keesan Jul 4th 2010 at 08:16 pm 8
The Venus de Silo cartoon would have worked better for me if the missiles didn’t have side fins.
mitch4 (#2), I believe the “Castle of the Otter” mistake for Citadel of the Autarch appeared initially as a report in Locus, in their “Forthcoming Books” section.
Lihtox Jul 6th 2010 at 10:02 am 9
@3: The Scarlet Letter cartoon turns the novel into a juvenile name-calling contest, which is amusing. “Yeah, well, you get a L for loser! How do you like that?”